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A longtime rural resident, I use my 60 plus years of life learning to opinionate here and elsewhere on the “interweb” on everything from politics to environmental issues. A believer in reasonable discourse rather than unhelpful attacks I try to give positive input to the blogesphere, so feel free to comment upon rural issues or anything else posted here. But don’t be surprised if you comments get zapped if you are not polite in your replys.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Ontario Election Cluster F**k!

Having just received our “Notice of
Registration” card in the mail we were surprised and dismayed
to learn that we did not vote in one of our local communities of
Chatsworh or Desboro or Wiliamsford but were expected to drive some
distance to Holland center. Upon checking where others around our
area were required to vote it became even more bizarre in that some
folks would be driving practically past our door to vote at a CLOSER
poll whilst other (including ourselves) would be driving PAST an OPEN
poll in order to get to the one specified by Elections Ontario.

Is this a concerted effort to
discommode rural voters or are the folks who set this up totaly
unaware that maps exist that would tell them where these locations
are?

Just for you interest here are a few of
the WEIRD decisions in this regard:-

Let us take those at the North end of
Concession 4 near County road 40 just a mile out of Chatsworth they
are asked to vote miles away at

.......... and drive way down the road
to Williamsford. We on the other hand must ignore the nearby
Chatsworth poll, drive practically PAST the Williamsford poll and
travel all the way to Holland Center.

If this is typical of how the polling
locations are figured out then I predict two thing, 1) Many folks
will ignore their cards and go to the nearest poll (if they are aware
of it through others) and get turned away. 2) Many will look at the
distances involved in getting to their poll and simply not bother.

Whilst I really do encourage folks to
vote option '2' is looking increasingly attractive particularly in
that the advanced polls, whilst open anywhere from 5 to 10 days
depending upon where you go, are even further away.

You can check thing out for yourselves
at this search form provided by Elections Ontario

but don't even bother to try it unless
you have a great deal of patience as it is hardy 'user friendly' , is
slow to respond, and there is no fuzzy search here, one minor thing
wrong and it goes tilt! Additionally it seems that many of the lots
and concessions do not exist according to the search engine.

Have fun checking out your voting
location, you may have to book some extra time off to get
there.........

UPDATE - I now learn that there is also a polling station in nearby Desboro (where we voted for the federal election), the excuses that Elections
Ontario has given for the unavailability of local polling locations is thus total nonsense!

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The Rant

I am a Canadian by choice not chance.
I am a country boy not a city slicker.
I have a dog not a doorbell, a collie not a rottweiler, a friend not a pet.
I walk in the woods not the streets.
I have a truck not a car, a barn not a garage, a septic system not a sewer.
I live on a gravel road not a paved road.
I have dial up not high speed, a mailbox not a letterbox, a yard light not a street light.
I shoot photo’s not trophies.
I am old not young, married not single, poor not rich, over taxed not over sexed.
I heat with wood not gas,
I respect my neighbors not numb-sculls, police not politicians , hikers not hunters.
I am a RURAL Canadian.